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  • Painful QSO on the ECR

    From Rug Rat@1:135/250 to All on Fri Jun 5 23:49:00 2026
    Man, heard a painful QSO on the East Coast Reflector tonight.

    There was a DX station from Austrailia trying to have a QSO, and one of the users kept asking him for his email address, the Austrailian ham repeatedly told the gentleman that he was blind, did not own a computer, had never seen the QRZ website.

    This idiot kept asking him for his email address, tried to explain how to add his email address, or make it public on QRZ, etc...

    I know I wanted to beat my head against the wall, I can not imagine what the bloke in AUS was thinking!

    Part of communication is learning to LISTEN, not just pushing the PTT and talking.

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Rug Rat on Tue Jun 9 19:55:56 2026
    Rug Rat wrote to All <=-

    Part of communication is learning to LISTEN, not just pushing the PTT
    and talking.

    Like someone running split DXand some idiot is busy trying to call the
    station on the output frequency.

    I hear (and see on digital) so many lids these days, sadly.

    73 DE KS4TD,
    Sean

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